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A lot in the booting mechanism has changed ever since Grub2 has been introduced in the scene. Earlier methods of tinkering around with the bootloader as in Grub1 are nt valid for Grub2. Well, it happens that I dual boot my laptop with Windows and Fedora Linux where Fedora Linux is the first in the…

(NOTE: Although the title says this is for adding OpenSUSE, it should work for adding other OS as well) OpenSUSE 11.2 uses the legacy Grub in contrast to Grub2 that is used by Ubuntu 9.10. So, when I installed OpenSUSE 11.2 in my laptop which has Ubuntu Karmic installed, the Grub that it installed did…

This is a continuation of the series of article “Getting Ready For Karmic Koala”. The previous articles in this series are: 1, 2, 3, 4. You might have heard it or maybe you have not, but Karmic Koala is to have GRUB 2 by default if you did a clean install. However, if you upgrade…